Using Sonar on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Sonar · Perplexity Labs

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Sonar through model ID perplexity/sonar. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

1
Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2
Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call perplexity/sonar — see the documentation for request format.

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Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

perplexity/sonar

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

About Sonar

Lightweight, cost-effective Perplexity search model with grounding and citations. Request fees: $5-$12/1K requests depending on search context depth (Low/Medium/High).

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Model Specs

Released2025-01-27

Context127k

ArchitectureDecoder Only

Vercel